How Terrorists "Operate"

Portia
If the Bush Administration was written in C (notice the subtle error):
if (person = terrorist) {
  punish_severely();
} else {
  exit(-1);
}
I got the code snip from [info]flemco who got it from Boing Boing.

The day freedom died in the United States of America: "Freedom died in the halls of the United States Congress Thursday as the U.S. Senate passed White House-sponsored legislation that gives President Bush virtually unlimited power to approve torture of detainees and allows the U.S. military to hold, without due course or Constitutional protections, anyone it considers a terrorist or threat to this country."
The House votes to strip away another freedom: "Another freedom that used to be protected by the Constitution is stripped away, destroyed forever by a Congress controlled by power-mad despots with no concern for basic rights."

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The quotes in the subject line are a really bad pun based on the code above, if you didn't notice.

Comments

[No Subject]

gah, fuckfuck.

if (person = terrorist) {
snrk.

[No Subject]

I am not sure that expanding wiretapping from drug enforcement to antiterrorism is really a constitutional violation. The key to unreasonable search is the unreasonable part and what is reasonable is very arbitrary.

As torture is concerned, there are a few more unimportant rules regarding exactly which forms of torture are acceptable, but I consider most of this stuff to be pretty mild regardless; being familiar as I am with a variety of tortures from throughout the world.

I am very curious about what the function punish_severely() looks like.